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Max Kukoy, Website Developer

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Max Kukoy has been a Washington, DC based freelance web developer/designer since 2000. Max earned his master’s degree in environmental science from the University of Oklahoma in 1993, then started working in public health and environmental policy at Washington, DC based non-profits. After a few years of policy work, he started working on his organizations web site, eventually deciding to start working as a freelancer under the name maxwebworks.

Sites range from simple database-driven sites, to ones with e-commerce capability. Max uses widely used and supported open source software applications to build web sites. He believes the site should be easy for the client to use and maintain and emphasizes building accessible web sites.

For more, view Max’s website www.maxwebworks.com.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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